DavidJednat;91279 wrote:
Stay out of the sun and don’t go tanning. Whatever color blue you use should look great for years and years. Not only does sunlight and tanning fade colors over time, but your pigment is one layer in the skin above where the ink rests so any tanning you do will immediately effect the color of your tattoo. Blue will look…[Read more]

what do you mean by regular blue? i am after something in the way of a true but gently blue that wont be mistook for black in any way but still reasonably dark, and a reasonably bright blue , specifically that of the blue ring octopus

ArniVidar;90932 wrote:
Don’t even think about it. It’s toxic and quite untested. Do you want to be the one to find out in 20 years that it causes skin cancer?

cheers, i have for a long time been looking for information on UV tattoos and the ink and havent found much , i suppose that is why .

cblackwe93;91058 wrote:
OK well i don’t really appreciate the condescending comments. I am completely fine with negative/creative feedback, I have ABSOLUTELY no problem with that. I do, however, have a problem with people who like to pretend they know everything and anything about everyone. I don’t expect to have someone suggest something to me…[Read more]

ArniVidar;91228 wrote:
No leopard print, no, but that does look like shit.

any input on how you’d fix it

WTF? lol no – i’m one of those insane new fangled women who can think for them self .

and so i wouldn’t look like a frostbitten leopard or like i am out of Avatar

Dave Van;91206 wrote:
I guess that’s what you have, just a much more vibrant blue.

unfortunately there is now way of actually having the luminescence in the colour as the actual animal does

basically in the darkest sections there will be larger and darker rings , or brighter , and as the pattern fades out in its section the colour will dull…[Read more]

more development –
1) this is done in water colour
2) i need to work on the shading component and decide weather or not would actually have it
3) final design isn’t going on my arm at all
4) obviously a tattoo artist will do a better job in general

ok so just did this to clear up what i am thinking it will look like actually on the skin , rather…[Read more]

i get what your saying – i am going to get my husband to paint a section on so i can see a bit better how the print will look on my figure. close up and from the other side of the room , also will help determine the size of the rings . i have an alternative idea but it is less unique in that is is a swirling pattern has a different attitude all…[Read more]

no way looks better as is . i think it’ll link nicely to a sleeve and i like the framing on the chest better than if the knee wasn’t there. looks good and sits well with your chest

glad to read that , i did this , started with my second hole on the left and just put earrings in till i could fit a belly ring in then kept that in my ear for about 2 years also able to wear other earrings together with it . then about 2 years ago i did it to the other three holes, i wear only 5mm bone hooks in my first holes and 3mm bone spirals…[Read more]

ha ha we all like a bit of sensory deprivation and asphyxiation

Dave Van;90805 wrote:
Also, if you are intending to do the black outline around the blue, like in the pic, that would seriously keep you from looking like an Avatar char. That is one freaky lookin’ octo, btw.

they dont always flush in the brown but – what you need to do is go and look up a video of a blue ring octopus-
they are little and…[Read more]

yodaddynukka;90808 wrote:
i dont think anyone will know that you are going for the octopus look and most everyone that sees it will ask you what it is. but good luck, i would love to see the finished product.

thats ok it doesn’t need to be obvious, a lot more Aussies will get it than other people and mostly i dont care but i do rather it be…[Read more]

hmmm i’ll see if i can get a better – closer shot .of the dragonfly.

and just to be nit pickey, its not suction cups the pattern is based on but the enraged flushing of a blue ring octopus (still result in circles tho… but bright ones.)
hmm it does bother me a little that people might think it a leopard print

Dave Van;90768 wrote:
That is freakin hot! Wish I could be the artist on that one! :p Just wondering if that much blue might make you look like a character from “Avatar” tho.

hmmmm good point – i liked the movie but not that much and not for the graphics funny enough .

i wonder too if the blue would go with being a redhead as much … hence…[Read more]

ok so i worked out how to fix the file, lol ,
this was done when i was still in the first concept type phase of the lay out. so not exactly but you can get an idea now the kind of thing i am going for – rather than off my crappy drawings

yeah , cause thats actually possible , 1 i dont have anything that will paint or colour my skin and 2 how am i sposed to see and draw on my own shoulder blades?

might get my husband to run a test tho, will put up photos of that if he does. you’re out of luck cuz i photoshopped it onto some of my modelling pics but didnt save them as jpeg. files…[Read more]

ok so this is just a rough sketch of where and the concept of the blue ring octopus print i want . i almost think i want it in blue and brighter blue , but might think bout purple too….. i have pix of more detail what the rings are like …. and the pattern will fade out in colour as it reaches the tips of each section – better pic of that to…[Read more]